Obsessed! ~ a layout

Just popping in quick to share a layout I made on Friday. It was for my 52 Week Challenge  last week and for last week's Sketches in Thyme sketch.  

I had so much fun scrapping these pictures!  My sister got me hooked on Bakery Story and Restaurant Story - games that we play on our phones. In one month I went from Level 1 to Level 28 on both games and not quite a week later, I'm on Level 31 lol!!  I found a little camera icon on the games and realized that I could snap pics of my bakery & restaurant, so I thought it would be something fun to scrap. 

I used Studio Calico Classic collection for the papers. The colors in the pictures are so bright, the neutral palette of the papers were perfect.  I used stars for the embellishments since stars are collected in the games to level up. Fun and I'm using some WAY old stash!  Foil thickers finished off this page.

Here is the sketch that I based my layout on~

TFL!

Gelato ~ a layout

Sorry for the silence this week, I was so proud of myself for starting to blog often and then my allergies reared their ugly head on Sunday night so I've been a bit off this week.  I did do a lot of resting and had some fun blog surfing! I've missed having the time to do that.

Here we are at the end of another week - with my weekly layout done late on a Friday night.  It's week #23 - I still have plenty more weeks to learn to get it done earlier!  I was thumbing through some pictures and came across a few pictures from our 'minmoon'.  We stayed a hotel near a casino about an hour from here and had fun hanging out at the casino that night and the next day.  The pictures aren't that great since it was my old phone but at least I have some pictures documenting that time :)

All supplies (except the mist) are from the Studio Calico April kit - "City of Lights".  This was my first month's subscription from them and I finally opened it tonight.  I am loving their kits! They are full of things that I normally wouldn't pair together and there are so  many fun things in it. Since I didn't want the cardstock to be plain, I decided to finally try the spattering technique that is so popular these days. Oh my, what a mess I made LOL!!  Luckily it all cleaned off my counter top pretty easily although I still need to wash off my cell phone case.

For the layout, I used this week's Sketches in Thyme sketch except I rotated it to fit my page. I love how this turned out!!

Tomorrow I'm off to my friend's to craft for the day. Naturally I over packed but I hope to get a lot done, including my projects for this Monday's blog hop!

Scrappin' Saturdays

I have been wanting to get myself on a schedule of sorts for scrapping.  I always make time for cards but never enough time for scrapping my memories. I hope to start sharing at least one page every Saturday from now on - and I have roped Danni into doing it with me :) And she is inspiring me to use my Cricut more as she is trying to use hers more too!

Today's page is another for the sunflower maze that Mike and I visited about 3 years ago.  My friend Jen and I were going to go last weekend but Irene messed those plans up.  I was so looking forward to seeing it as it was in the shape of a butterfly and I think we all know I love butterflies!

I started with Sunday's Studio Calico sketch, in place of the smaller pictures I decided to take two pictures and turn them into mosaics.

Here is my take on the sketch~

I love how the title turned out!  First I cut the title in the orange and then I cut the shadow in brown.  When I was re-cutting the shadow (first time I ran out of paper!), I discovered the word petals by itself on another screen so I cut that in the patterned paper. I think that may be the first time I've ever cut multiple layers for a title and I love how it turned out!

Supply List~

• Crate Paper Lemon Grass - Lime, Straw, Poppyseed papers
• Crate Paper Lemon Grass glitter borders
• Cricut Country Life Cartridge for the title
• Bling from stash

TFL!  

SNC January 24 Hour Challenge

The Scrappin-n-Chattin yahoo group has a 24 hour challenge the last weekend of each month. We list 3 collections we'd like to use and our partner picks one of three sketches and one of our 3 collections. This month Abby chose for me! She chose sketch #3 (which is by Studio Calico) and Basic Grey Jovial.

Here is my take on the sketch. I really like how it turned out. I have a bunch more pics from our Christmas Card photo shoot so I will use those on a 2nd page, the journaling will also be on the 2nd page.

This is the sketch. I rotated it to suit what I had in mind.

TFL!